Thread subject: Diptera.info :: a strange weapon used in combat by an unidentyfied brachyceran sp.

Posted by mwkozlowski on 19-10-2006 10:37
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Females!!! Even more interresting. That was a funny day. I was engaged in "nice shots" (flowers, ants so on) for commertial TV and it was sunny day but little windy, so leaves moved. I had no time to concentrate much on flies, but on young apple tres around the were two fly shows! On suny leaves there were jumping dolichoforid (?) flies. They were engaged in some ritual competition jumping alternately till one left. (see the picture, what species again????) at the same time on the same trees but on more shady leaves I noticed these grey flies wrestlinfg. They were rather fast and the leaves moved, so I could not make any valuable filming just this stop frame